Word: shinji
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...numbing offshore waters for abalone. The islanders' lives are far from a song. But when they rise from the earthen floors of the dark, dank-smelling huts, they see the morning sun dancing on the sea, and stately clouds crossing the horizon "like ancient gods." Teen-age Shinji is content to follow this age-old pattern of a life both dangerously and harmoniously close to nature. When he prays in the garden of the Yashiro shrine, he asks, "God, let the seas be calm, the fish plentiful, and ... in time let me become a fisherman among fishermen...
...front yard of one of many rows of neat new grey tile-roofed houses near the epicenter, I saw a young man doing his own laundry. He was Shinji Hamaguchi, 23, a former medical student and now a drugstore clerk. The A-bomb killed his parents and nine other relatives. "I still long to be a doctor," he said, "but it is financially impossible. If my family were living it would be different...